• Services this week
• Parish notices
• Palm crosses
• Issues with Shaw emails not receiving weekly newsletters
• Contemplative Prayer
• Thursday Book Study - Laudato Si'
• 27 Feb Taizé Prayer at St Philip Oak Bay
• 28 Feb Teens & Twenties Games Night
• 4 March Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
• Looking Wider
• Congregation Emanu-El Refugee Project - Syrian-Palestinian refugee sponsorship
• Karren Stinson Bursary
• St Luke's Cedar Hill: Attic Treasures Vintage Market
• This Week in Prayer
• Useful links

16 February 2025 - 6th Sunday after Epiphany, Septuagesima

8am Holy Communion

9am Community prayers downstairs in the youth room

9.30am Eucharist, in-person and live streamed via Facebook Live [LINK]

• Officiant: Rev. Rebecca Yeo
• Altar Guild:  Kathy Fyfe, Jackie Prowse
• Usher: Susan Smith
• Music leader:  Dave Conway 
• Readers:  Kathy Fyfe
• Prayers of the People: Florie Varga
• Powerpoint & slides:  Clayton Savage, Marcus Schlag
• Facebook Live: Karishma Iyer
• Children's ministry: Jenni Jennings
• Youth ministry: Ruth McGhee
• Coffee: Linda and Jeff Monty
• Offerings counters: Betty Davidson, Mike Pipes

Please join us downstairs in the hall for coffee and fellowship after the 9.30 service.

18 Feb, Tuesday 10.30am Contemplative Prayer

20 Feb, Thursday 10am Holy Eucharist followed by book study

It's already that time of year again - this is your annual reminder to bring your palm crosses back to church over the next 2-3 Sundays in order to create the ashes for Ash Wednesday.

- Karen Fenimore for the Altar Guild

Photo by Hannah Fleming-Hlll on Unsplash

If you - or someone in your household - use(s) a Shaw email address, and you haven't been receiving weekly newsletters the last couple of weeks (and you may have missed the Vestry reports package sent out last week as well), please be aware that Shaw emails have suddenly started rejecting all messages sent from St Philip. 

You're still subscribed to the newsletter list, and this isn't something I can fix from this end.

Everybody’s email program will have different settings, but you should find an old newsletter email from admin@stphilipvictoria.ca and work out how to tell your email program to “whitelist” or mark the sending address (admin@stphilipvictoria.ca) as a “safe sender”.

It seems to affect a majority but not 100% of Shaw users, and is not 100% consistent for those it does affect. This kind of sudden blocking of previously ok addresses is not a new problem for Shaw mail users, and it's increased since the Rogers acquisition, so it may not be only St Philip emails that aren't reaching you.

Others with the same problem report that they were able to use these instructions in Shaw Webmail:

https://support.therae.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050482671-Not-receiving-some-emails-Add-to-Whitelist#h_01G7FNQ1JY71Z42FQ7FT8SCG89

- Anna

Please join us on Tuesday mornings, 10:30 - 11:30, meeting in the choir area of the nave (at the front of the church), for a 20 minute contemplative sit with a time of prayer following. 

Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash

Following the 10am Thursday service, our regular seasonal book study resumes starting 9 January 2025 with Laudato Si', Pope Francis' 2015  encyclical subtitled "On Care for our Common Home".

All are welcome to join in the book study, whether or not you attend the service before it!

• 20 Feb Ecological education and spirituality (202-246)
• 27 Feb Conclusions

Full text of the encyclical Laudato Si'

'The Letter' film

All are welcome to a candlelit service of song, silence and contemplation, in the style of the Taizé Community, at St Philip on the last Thursdays of the month at 7pm:

• 27 February
• 27 March

The end of the month is fast approaching, and you know what that means: it's BOARD GAME NIGHT! We have snacks and board games, and all we need is you! Feel free to invite your friends and bring your own snacks and games if you want to - this evening is for *everyone* between the ages 16 and 29. We won't nitpick about the age limits :)

Friday, February 28th, 6-9pm in the lower hall - follow signs from the parking lot. Feel free to drop in or leave at any time. There are bus stops for buses 4, 9, 7, 11, and 15 within walking distance from the church. Questions?: Contact Karishma at ms.shrutikarishma[at] gmail.com

Welcome to St Philip's Pancake Supper, held in the church hall on Shrove Tuesday (4 March), the evening before Lent begins. This year there will be two sittings, at 5.00 and 6.30pm. Organizers and volunteers wanted for before, during and after!

Sign up sheets are ready in the narthex - please take care to sign up for the time you prefer.

Image by Tabea from Pixabay

To contribute, see link below to make a tax deductible donation through the Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, or write a cheque to  Congregation Emanu-El. 1461 Blanshard Street, Victoria,  V8W 2J3. With a comment in the note section saying: "For Refugee Family CE25". 

Link correction: https://congregationemanuel.shulcloud.com/payment.php?donation_type_id=7603841

In the Payment Details section, under Type, ensure that Refugee Family CE25 is selected from the drop-down menu.

To learn more about this initiative, please contact us at CEE.Refugee@gmail.com

Shalom/Salaam

Robert Oppenheimer

Chair, 

from our neighbours at Lutheran Church of the Cross - all enquiries to lutheranchurchofthecross@shaw.ca

Application Deadline: 31 March 2025

The Karren Stinson Bursary Fund provides financial assistance to Lutherans and Anglicans based in Western Canada who are currently involved in post-secondary education leading to a vocation of service. The first Bursary was awarded in 1991.

We now invite applications for a bursary of $1000. The deadline is 31 March 2025.

Persons who wish to be considered by the Bursary Committee must meet the following criteria:

• Be actively enrolled in full-time or part-time post-secondary studies;
• Be a Canadian citizen or have Permanent Resident Status with a Social Insurance Number (SIN) to be provided in the application letter (see below). The SIN number is required by the Canada Revenue Agency for income tax purposes.
• Have a permanent address in Western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon).
• Be an active member of a Lutheran or Anglican congregation.

To apply for the 2025 Karren Stinson Bursary, please follow the link below for detailed instructions:

Vintage Fashion Showcase will present an Attic Treasures Vintage Market on Saturday, February 15th, in St. Luke’s Community Hall, 3821 Cedar Hill X Road.

Come and have some fun at a multi-vendor vintage market! A variety of items will be for sale including vintage clothing, jewelry and accessories, collectibles, and curiosities. Find some treasures for yourself or for a special gift. Discover vintage clothing for personal style or costuming!

Admission - Regular 10 am - 4 pm - $3.00
Early Birds 9 am - 10 am - $10.00

Vintage, Antiques, Retro and Collectibles including Clothing, Jewelry, Housewares and more…

• Live Streams:  via Facebook Live [LINK]
• Service outline: for those viewing the live stream, the coming Sunday's 9.30 service outline is online here
• Listen to a past sermon only: click here, choose a sermon, scroll down & click "jump to sermon". Now featuring audio-only as well!
• Service recording & sermon audio: choose any past Sunday here (listed most recent first)
• More news & events from our church neighbours and wider community: click here
• Previous parish newsletters: click here
• Parish Council minutes: click here , see under Downloads
• Staff contacts: via the parish website
• Liturgy for the Islands and Inlets: click here for full text
• Salal + Cedar (Diocese of New Westminster): click here
• Book of Alternative Services: click here
• Anglican Church of Canada lectionary: click here
• Revised Common Lectionary: click here
• Diocesan Comings & Goings: read latest
• Inclusive Christians at UVic: read latest
• Faith Tides: click here for latest issue
• Contemplative Society: latest news
• L'Abri Canada: read latest
• Sorrento Centre news: click here
• PWRDF updates: read latest
• KAIROS Canada: read latest
• Anglican Church of Canada news: click here
• Anglican Journal: click here for latest articles

The Welcome pew leaflet, weekly parish news, current Anglican Journal, & Faith Tides, recent Parish Council minutes and more are all available in print in the narthex. Please let Anna know if more print copies are needed, on Sundays or for sharing with those who don't use email.

Header: Cover image: “Those who trust in the Lord… shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream.” Cascade Falls, Blue Mountains, Australia. Photo by Deleece Cook on Unsplash, 2018. 
Candles: S. Hermann & F. Richter, NoName_13 on Pixabay
Footer painting: Caitlin Ambery, 2007